Show HOW TAFT FEARED HUGHES Elisha Hanson In Cartoons Magazine There ThEra Is something remar remarkable able about the nomination and the candidacy of Hughes As far back as 1908 Hughes was regarded by the Republican party as presidential timber In Ip fact tact that year r. r after Roosevelt had set the lines to nominate Taft the latter and all his advisers feared that Hughes might get Into the fray and break up their plans A conference was held In n Cincinnati at the home of ot Charles P. P Taft TaCt and it was agreed there to send a representative representative to Hu Hughes hes to sound him out The representative went and came back with a most remarkable message It wa I l will not enter Into any scramble S for the nomination If It ever it comes to me without effort on my part without any deals which I must c carry carryout carryout rry out I will accept It But until such sucha a time I shall refuse to permit my name to be considered S Taft and the Taft managers were Joyous No such had been Issued since 1824 when John Quincy Ad Adams ms refused to turn a hand to bring bi about his election In these thesa modern times it was an Impossibility to repeat the Adams triumph And so the Taft campaign went ahead with the result everyone knows |